Legal Opinion
United States v. Cleophas James Kearney, United States of America v. Eugene Lemon, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 22, 1977No. 76-1320, 75-3021PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHOY, Circuit Judge:
Cleophas James Kearney and Eugene Lemon, Jr. appeal from their convictions for conspiring to illegally import, possess, and distribute a controlled substance, and for unlawfully distributing the same. We affirm.
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW
Kearney, Lemon, and two co-defendants, Andre Willis King and Fred Neil Powell, were charged in an eight-count indictment with various federal narcotics offenses under 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a)(1), 846, 959 and 963. The defendants and several unindicted co-conspirators were accused of planning and executing a scheme to obtain heroin in…
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